This is the value of the teacher, who looks at a face and says there's something behind that and I want to reach that person, I want to influence that person, I want to encourage that person, I want to enrich,I want to call out that person who is behind that face, behind that color,behind that language, behind that tradition, behind that culture.I believe you can do it. I know what was done for me.—Maya Angelou​

Italian Strings Academy teachers are members of the Vaughan String Quartet and freelance chamber musicians. We believe that if we want to teach how to perform music, we have first of all to be music performers ourselves. Moreover, performances are the main point of a musician's professional life and we do care about passing this passion to our students.

For this reason we strongly encourage our students to attend their teachers' concerts, in order to witness the final result of a hard work of preparation.